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I have a few different 2GB flash drives... and I have a WD Passport (320GB) hdd...

I want to have a 64GB flash drive, if they didn't cost so much ... anyone know of any *good* cheap high capacity flash drives (that are usb 2.0)

I want to have a higher capacity drive similar to my passport... its good reliable (never crashed)... fast (awesome access for playing everything Steam )... so I wish there was a bigger wd passport, but there isn't... anyone know of a company that makes comparable drives, but high capacity?

Isn't the WD Passport a 2.5" drive?
I think the capacity on those is limited by what the HD manufacturers have out right now.
It's not as easy to cram a terabyte of data into one of those drives as it is a 3.5" drive.

Can't help much on the flash drive front though. I have an 8GB that I carry with me and I don't use it enough to even fill that up, moreless anything larger.

Is $5,000.00 low enough?



For storage sizes above 16 GB, I'd have to look at hard drive based technology as well. Most affordable are 2.5" drives. But I did find a Seagate 3.5" 250GB USB 2.0 for $29. Mwahahaha!

I know that some flash-based hard drives are starting to come down in price since they've moved to a higher density chips. (Some would argue that this presents its own problems when they moved from SLC to MLC, because you lose twice as much data if a cell goes bad in MLC. Others would argue performance is worse with MLC. I think both camps would be right.) But I haven't seen any of those drives hit the mass market at a price point that I would say it "didn't cost so much."

I've seen 64gb flash drive for under $400.... but then the 128gb skyrockets to thousands. lol

I always figured if you needed that much more space, just to get a portable hard drive. But i suppose that for ultimate "portability" you'd want a flash drive huh...? Aside from that, is there a special reason you're choosing a flash drive over a portable hard drive? and would you care to share with the class?
I'll be taking notes

I'm curious why Flash vs. Disk as well. At $0.50 per Gig, a bunch of 2.5" disk based drives would nearly net you 1TB in storage at the same cost of a 64GB Flash drive. And certainly with 3.5" drives costing $0.25 per Gig you can hold almost 2TB at the same cost.

USB 2.0 is what, 1.5 - 60 MB/sec in performance? I can't think of a single drive (Flash or external Disk) that introduces itself to the max throughput levels.

I'm curious why Flash vs. Disk as well. At $0.50 per Gig, a bunch of 2.5" disk based drives would net you nearly 1TB in storage at the same cost as the said 64GB Flash drive. And certainly with 3.5" drives costing $0.25 per Gig you can hold almost 2TB at the same cost.

USB 2.0 is what, 1.5 - 60 MB/sec in performance? I can't think of a single drive (Flash or external Disk) that introduces itself to the max throughput levels. I'm curious how well these 64GB flash drives do. I did find an announcement in 2007 from Samsung which stated that they would approach 53MB/sec for flash based drives. Interesting.

Neophyte wrote:

Neophyte wrote:I'm curious why Flash vs. Disk as well. At $0.50 per Gig, a bunch of 2.5" disk based drives would nearly net you 1TB in storage at the same cost as the stated 64GB Flash drive. And certainly with 3.5" drives costing $0.25 per Gig you can hold almost 2TB at the same cost.

USB 2.0 is what, 1.5 - 60 MB/sec in performance? I can't think of a single drive (Flash or external Disk) that introduces itself to the max throughput levels.

just because

I prefer flash to actual external hdds, due to size and portability... cost isn't too much of a big deal, I just love the size of flash drives..

...granted, if I could get a 500GB or 1TB hdd that is around the physical size and reliability of my wd passport, I'd soo be there.